Did the New York Times ignore top-selling book that damns
abortionist as serial killer?

It debuted at No. 3 on Amazon’s best seller list, but
supporters of the true crime book "Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s
Most Prolific Serial Killer" say that the New York Times intentionally
kept it off its influential bestseller list

Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education a rather
hyper-sensitive blogger seeks to take the Alt Right to task. But not for the
usual reasons. You see, this time it has to do with appropriation, no not of
internet memes or 80s New Wave bands, instead it focus on a famous English
author: Jane Austen. It seems as if The Chronicle blogger has uncovered a
nefarious scheme of internet racists who are using Jane Austen to further their
“White supremacist” agenda of crafting an “ethnostate”.

Too much diversity? Marvel says some comic-book readers are
pushing back against its relaunched titles

Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is now a woman. A young
Muslim woman has taken up the mantle of Ms. Marvel. A black teenage girl is
filling the shoes of white billionaire playboy Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. And
Spider-Man is black and Latino.

"What we heard was that people didn’t want any more
diversity. They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard,
whether we believe that or not. I don’t know that that’s really true, but
that’s what we saw in sales. We saw the sales of any character that was
diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was
not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against. That
was difficult for us because we had a lot of fresh, new, exciting ideas that we
were trying to get out and nothing new really worked."

If you’re looking for a book about Prince the musician, this
isn’t it: The Most Beautiful — an achingly lovely memoir by Prince’s first wife
and longtime muse, Mayte Garcia — is about Prince the man, the friend, the
lover, and the husband.

The Ayn Rand Institute reports that Bosch Fawstin and Amy
Peikoff are co-authoring a graphic novel based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
The work will be published by New American Library, and is expected to be
released in three parts within the next couple of years.

Who is “the Islamic Jesus”? And why could Muslims and
Christians both afford to know him and learn from him? These are some of the
questions Mustafa Akyol addresses in his book The Islamic Jesus: How the King
of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims.

Are millennials leading the way in rejecting Gideon Bibles? Los
Angeles Times says yes

Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel company,
supplies a Bible and the Book of Mormon in the rooms of every other hotel in
the franchise. But the company has recently decided that no religious materials
should be offered at two of its newest millennial-oriented hotel brands, Moxy
and Edition hotels.

“If the book fights you to work with, it’s no fun,” says
Paul Parisi, president of Acme Binding in Charlestown, founded in 1821. That
makes it the oldest continuously operated book bindery in the world.

The Folsom store is one of only three across the nation.
Aside from a coffee shop, this store will have the Barnes & Noble Kitchen
-- a restaurant with a full bar. Shoppers can also order a glass of wine or a
lunch item, and enjoy it anywhere in the store.

Amazon's bookstores look ordinary at first glance. But by
pulling out a mobile phone with the Amazon app, shoppers can use visual search
technology to identify books and objects around them. The search reveals
reviews, shipping options and price.

Locked up for 16 months: how a British architect discovered
Cuba's dark side

In Close But No Cigar, Purvis, a 52-year-old London
architect who moved to Cuba in 2000, reveals a rather different side to the
Castros’ fiefdom.

His shocking memoir recounts being locked up for more than a
year, initially for “spying”, then for “economic crime”, without ever being
told the details of the allegations against him. “It’s Alice in Wonderland for
sociopathic commies,” he writes.